Word: flukes
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That's just a fluke. What's not is Alley's 21-in., fraz-glam star quality. It's more than the exotic eyes and that falling lock of hair she is forever brushing back (35 times in the first 22-minute episode). Her dusky voice can surge into exasperation or giddify into girlish vamping. Best of all, she knows that TV comedy doesn't need pushing; a joke can be caressed into a jewel. Less frenetic than Lucy, more mature than Mary, Alley has a shot at being TV's all-time funny woman. Funny in italics. Woman...
...Pixar a brand name as powerful as Disney's. Michael Eisner, head of Disney, says he doesn't even think of the two companies as separate anymore. "We are joined at the hip, at the computer and at the soul," he told TIME. "Pixar's success is not a fluke. One thing I always think is essential is enthusiasm, and Steve Jobs is massively enthusiastic. Jobs' bravado is his charm. He's a serious businessman, but he's out there with his charisma. It's fun to be with...
DURHAM, N.H.--Yesterday, the Harvard women's lacrosse team wanted to end its season by proving that Tuesday's game was not a fluke. And that's what the Crimson happen...
...goes the theory, at least, and early studies of Hale-Bopp's gases bear this out. "We've found a type of hydrogen cyanide that's otherwise seen only in interstellar space," says Owen. "We saw it in Hyakutake too, but we thought it could be a fluke." Astronomers have found other gases they suspected would be there, including ammonia, methane, alcohol, formaldehyde and other organic compounds. Says Michael Mumma, an astronomer at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center: "It's been suggested that both the building blocks of life and the water in our oceans fell to Earth...
Despite the inside-outside threat Penn offers, Harvard is confident that its earlier shellacking of the Quakers was no fluke...